Augustine husband slits wrists as police probe death of impeached Nevada politico

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | JULY 15, 2006 | BRIAN HAYNES, ED VOGEL and DAVID KIHARA

[PDR]

The husband of state Controller Kathy Augustine apparently tried to kill himself Friday morning, as suspicions surfaced about the circumstances surrounding his wife's unexpected death.

Chaz Higgs, 42, slit his wrists about 10:30 a.m. in the Las Vegas home he had shared with Augustine, according to Las Vegas police. Paramedics took him to University Medical Center, which had discharged him by evening.

Final autopsy results have not been released, but Reno Police Deputy Chief Jim Johns confirmed Friday that preliminary autopsy indications were that "there wasn't evidence of long-term heart disease."

Reno police and the state Division of Investigation were scrutinizing Augustine's death because she was only 50 years old and had no known history of heart trouble.

Augustine's 36-year-old stepson, Greg Augustine of Thousand Oaks, Calif., told the Review-Journal that he thought her death was suspicious and that he had lingering questions about the 2003 death of his father. Charles Augustine, 63, was hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

"He was getting better, and then suddenly all his organs failed," said Greg Augustine, whose father was married to Kathy Augustine for 17 years. "There never was an autopsy. His body should be exhumed."

Higgs, who was Charles Augustine's critical care nurse during his stay at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, married Kathy Augustine three weeks after Charles Augustine's death.

[PDR]

I'm not sayin'....

[Rte66]

Hope they check/checked out the anti-freeze levels in the dead woman's tissues - and perhaps the suicidal husband's, too.

One woman with two dead husbands was charged with murder by anti-freeze - the special on those cases was a repeat on Dateline Mystery last night. Very hard to detect; death appears natural. A-F can be put into green Jello and is edible - tastes normal. "Just sayin.'"

[Tax-chick]

Wow!

[Red Badger]

Green Jello?......Hmmmm....We had green jello a few days back.......Didn't eat any.........just sat in the fridge till my wife threw it out..............

[sticker]

There is nothing normal about the taste of jello

[ErnBatavia]

There is nothing normal about the taste of jello

Sweetened ham glaze.

[lafroste]

A-F can be put into green Jello and is edible

Just because it tastes OK doesn't mean it's edible. That stuff will kill you, hardly the definition of edible I'm familiar with.

[Jimnorwellwarren]

...oh for the days when there was Howard Hughes and Paul Laxalt (and no Harry Reid); times were simpler then

[oldironsides]

No need for antifreeze when the nurse probably had access to
many drugs that could simulate a cardiac event. The step son may be on to something more sinister. Evil is everywhere.

[Gritty]

Hmmm. Big money. Corruption. Mysterious murders.

Anybody see the Clintons skulking around Las Vegas lately?

[PDR]

think double indemnity -- my little man is telling me there is something afoot

[AnAmericanMother]

Interesting.

It always seems odd to me how women are blinded by lust/ambition. If this male nurse and the wife indeed were complicit in the death of the first husband, why on earth did the wife think SHE would be immune if she became inconvenient? A man who will cheat on his wife will cheat on his second wife, and they say it gets easier to murder as you go along . . .

[PDR]

I wouldn't know abotu such things....

[AnAmericanMother]

That's why I invoked "they" . . . those favorites of liberal news interviewers . . .

( actually, though, I work in the justice system, and you would be surprised how many idiots there are out there. )

[PDR]

that would not surprise me....

[theFIRMbss]

>Chaz Higgs, 42, slit his wrists about 10:30 a.m. in the Las Vegas home he had shared with Augustine, according to Las Vegas police. Paramedics took him to University Medical Center, which had discharged him by evening

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You say there ain't no use in livin'
It's all a waste of time
'N you wanna throw your life away, well
People that's just fine
Go ahead on 'n get it over with then
Find you a bridge 'n take a jump
Just make sure you do it right the first time
'Cause nothin's worse than a Suicide Chump

You say there ain't no light a-shinin'
Through the bushes up ahead
'N we're all gonna be so sorry
When we find out you are dead
Go head on and get it over with then
Find you a bridge 'n take a jump
Just make sure you do it right the first time
'Cause nothin's worse than a Suicide Chump

Now maybe you're scared of jumpin'
'N poison makes you sick
'N you want a little attention
'N you need it pretty quick
Don't wanna mess your face up
Or we won't know if it's you
Aw, there's just so much to worry about
Now what you gonna do?

Go head on 'n get it over with then
Go head on 'n get it over with then
Go head on 'n get it over with then
Go head on 'n get it over with then

You're on the bridge;
Scared to leap,
But a girl walks over
To take a peep. . .
She says: "DON'T DO IT"
But wouldn't you know...
The girl got a head
Like a buffalo...

[Rte66]

At least one of the men ate it without noticing, maybe both. That's "edible" to my way of thinking.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I think the term is "palatable".

[Ready4Freddy]

Body of previous husband exhumed today - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664118/posts?page=5#5